Isaiah 19:15
And {there will be nothing for Egypt to do}, head or tail, palm branch or reed.
Isaiah 9:14-15
So Yahweh cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and reed [in] one day.
Psalm 128:2
You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands; you [will be] happy and [it will be] well with you.
Proverbs 14:23
In all toil, there is profit, but the {talk} of lips [leads] only to poverty.
Habakkuk 3:17
Though the fig tree [does] not blossom, nor there be fruit on the vines; the yield of [the] olive tree fails, and the cultivated fields do not yield food; [the] flock is cut off from the animal pen, and there is no cattle in the stalls,
Haggai 1:11
I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, on what the soil produces, on human beings and wild animals, and on {all their labor}.'"
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,